Antiochene

Definitions

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adj. of or pertaining to various cities named Antioch, especially the Syrian Antioch

n. citizen of Antioch, especially the Syrian Antioch

Etymologies

From Late Latin Antiochēnus, from Latin Antīochīa. (Wiktionary)

Examples

With the various expressions for person and nature being rather confused, it was a triumph of Pope St Leo to provide the basis for a formula of faith that preserved the best of both the Antiochene and the Alexandrian schools, proclaiming for all time that the Incarnate Word is one person in two natures, divine and human.

These two approaches consolidated in the epoch that followed and gave rise to two models or archetypes and finally to two Christological schools: the Antiochene school influenced by Paul and the Alexandrian school influenced by John.

To take what is at first sight the most economical of the Antiochene texts, the 325 creed, we find the attributes of divine transcendence named and the Son's work as image and revealer of the unknown divinity spelled out with a scriptural citation; the slightly later reference to the saving work of Christ is prefaced by a list of titles and a reiteration of what it means to call the logos the Father's image.

It is not just that credal material is absorbed into liturgy; the credal material itself has a strongly doxological character, most evident perhaps in the 341 Antiochene text but by no means absent from the 325 statement of faith, which has a slightly perfunctory allusion to the biblical titles of the Logos.